Review: Inheriting Her Ghosts by S.H. Cooper

Upon her great-aunt’s death, Eudora Fellowes inherits not only her fortune but also her crumbling seaside property known as High Hearth. Seeking to shake off the expectations of a proper lady in society, Eudora sees High Hearth as a chance to build a life she can live as she pleases—choosing to remain contentedly unmarried and childless. Taking few belongings and her faithful hounds Black Shuck and Cerberus, Eudora sets out to make High Hearth her own. She quickly finds that in inheriting High Hearth, she has also inherited all the dangerous secrets in its walls and the distrust of the townsfolk engendered by her great-aunt.

I was immediately engrossed in this book, starting it in the afternoon and could not sleep until I finished it. I love Cooper's detail in the story—dress, etiquette, little bits of information about the house and those who lived in it before her—all superb. The story is the perfect length, you get all the chills and excitement, but it doesn’t get caught up in any extraneous storylines it could have pursued. Inheriting Her Ghosts is  S.H. Cooper’s best book thus far.

5/5 Stars